Economic Strengthening interventions appropriate for these households include activities that seek to move households beyond risk-reduction strategies, link them to more growth-oriented opportunities, and sustainably increase their incomes.

A recent publication LSE on the results from an RCT conduction on BRAC's Targeted Ultra Poor Program in Bangladesh, which provides both asset transfers and skills training to poor rural women , shows significant changes in earnings by allowing poor women to move out of agricultural labor into running small businesses. The RCT shows that the shifts persist even after the assistance is withdrawn and leads to a 38% increase in earnings.

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